Su Shi's poem "Pick nectar from the coconut trees and bring a bowl of white jade fragrance" refers to Hainan's refreshing and cooling.

Qingbu Liang is a Hainanese dish and is a very popular dessert in Hainan. Generally, the more traditional Qingliang is mainly made from red beans or mung beans, barley, peanuts, etc., and then added with ice cubes when eating.

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To refresh and nourish coolness, in Hainanese the word "liang" for cooling and tonic is pronounced as Yin Shang tone, which is the same as the two words when used as a unit of weight. It is Laohuo soup that clears away heat and removes dampness in summer. The ingredients for cooling and replenishing are not uniform. Some are mainly based on strengthening the spleen and removing dampness, while others are mainly based on moistening the lungs.

The material formula usually includes: mung bean, red bean, yam, lotus seed, crabapple, barley, sago, lily, red date and northern and southern apricot, and add watermelon, pineapple, longan and other fruits to make sugar water. There are also Laohuo soups with astragalus, Codonopsis pilosula, yam, lotus seeds, Ophiopogon japonicus, Yunling, blue dates, figs, and pork tendons, but different stores in different regions often have their own special ingredients according to different groups of people.

Qingbuliang mostly appears in the form of sugar water and Laohuo soup. Different regions have their own unique flavors and therapeutic effects. After improvement, in addition to the original sugar water, Qingbu Liang also has different ways to eat it, such as coconut water, coconut milk, smoothies and ice cream. Popular in Hainan, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, Guangxi and other regions of China.

Qingbuliang is known as "coolness on the tip of the tongue". It was once praised by Su Shi as "picking nectar from the coconut trees and holding a bowl of white jade incense".

In Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau and other places, Qingbuliang is an old fire soup that clears away heat and removes dampness in summer. For example, use yam, lotus seeds, cypress seeds, barley, lily, red dates, northern and southern apricots, or add in ingredients such as Adenophora, Polygonatum odoratum, tangerine peel, and longan to strengthen the spleen, remove dampness, moisten the lungs, and remove dryness, and cook it into a soup. Into porridge.

Guangxi Qingbu Liang is more similar to fruit assorted ice, with watermelon chunks, pineapple chunks, mung beans, etc. as ingredients, which is relatively simple.

Hainan Qingbu Liang combines the best of Guangdong and Guangxi, with about ten or twenty kinds of ingredients, and adds fresh coconut meat, coconut juice, etc. from Hainan. It looks like sugar water, but tastes soft and rich. .